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My grandma makes a cream corn salad with some melted cream cheese and green chilies that is beyond ridiculously delicious. And then, to top things off, she makes potato salad that is this mixture between regular potato salad and a baked potato. Overall, sometimes being from the South is the fucking bomb diggity.

I think of America as a stew. There are many different individual ingredients that make it up and they remain as separate discrete chunks. However, all contribute their own flavors to the broth, and its impossible to avoid absorbing the flavors of other ingredients in the broth.

Or the greek myth of seven men farting in a sauna. After a while, the farts intermix and form one central flavor, and "none could tell from whence it came", as the story goes. As the King enters and is appalled by the state of the place, none of the men knows who to blame, and they are executed as one. Hence the proverb "Don't toot if you can't scoot".

Edit: I apologize to the english lit purists, I did paraphrase a bit from memory of the original narration by Anthony Hopkins.

The "celebrating" we do for for Columbus days is mostly limited to talking about the atrocities he was a part of. End result is people remembering that North and South America were already full of people and cultures before the Europeans arrived. One of the only days of the year that comes up in conversation.

That being said, some places are true melting pots. New Orleans is one. Traditional New Orleans food is a mix of French, Spanish, African, Caribbean and even Native American. Jambalaya is the classic example of a food that is influenced by almost all of those. Then when new cultures start arriving, rather than isolate themselves like they did in New York with "Little Italy" and "Chinatown" they're thrown into that melting pot. That's why we have food in New Orleans like crawfish fettuchini.

What's beautiful is that the traditions are also influenced by all of these cultures, especially anything that involves music.

Oh man, I'm glad you brought up the Germans. I'd be here all day if I tried to list everything.

They're one of the examples of the melting pot that is culture, more specifically, music. The Germans are the ones that introduced the accordion to the area, which is now the main instrument in Cajun and Zydeco music.

There's actually what's called "The German Coast," which was an area that was settled in the early 1700s. It's along Bayou Des Allemands, (French for German Bayou) and there's even a city called Des Allemands.

And the larger region was only named Philistine(Palestine) by the romans to add insult to injury to those rebellious jews for the bar kokhba revolt. The Philistines were the ancient enemies of the jews, who resided along the southern coast (Gaza, Ashkelon, Ashdod). By the time of the revolt there were barely any philistines left.

Without getting into the modern day politics of the region, that region has a truly unique and fascinating history.

hell a "palestinian" identity is a very modern thing. Ascribing it to Jesus is hilariously wrong. It's just a really obvious attempt at avoiding calling the region israel, and avoiding calling Jesus jewish.

Seymour, Wisconsinite checking in. We have Hamburger Days every August to celebrate Hamburger Charlie's hamburger-related legacy. Our town made a website dedicated to it, if anyone wants to read into more detail.

As someone from CT I have to politely disagree and say the hamburger was created in New Haven at Louis Lunch (which is still there, and they're still cooking burgers in 100+ year old cast iron stoves).

All that aside, the origin is disputed but it's generally agreed upon to be an American creation.

Actually, hamburger invention is a controversy so there is no right answer, only speculation.
From Wikipedia:

The exact origin of the hamburger is unknown and may never be known with any certainty. Most historians believe that it was invented by a cook who placed a Hamburg steak between two slices of bread. It is difficult to determine who first had the idea for the hamburger, because there is no written record about its creation, as only verbal descriptions and direct statements to the local press exist to support the various claims of invention

Not entirely true - the lyrics to the Star-Spangled Banner were written by an American, but the tune was already a popular English song.

From wikipedia:

The lyrics come from "Defence of Fort McHenry",[1] a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships in Chesapeake Bay during the Battle of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812. The poem was set to the tune of a popular British song written by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a men's social club in London. "The Anacreontic Song" (or "To Anacreon in Heaven"), with various lyrics, was already popular in the United States.

For the record.... Jesus was a Jew, "Palestinians" as they are known today, didn't exist when he did. Furthermore, he lived in Nazareth and the Galilee which are in modern day Israel, the Jewish state. If anything he would be an "Israeli" by nationality... That is all.

EDIT I meant when American networks takes shows form Britain or wherever and do American versions. Those are generally poor imitations. I do realize that there are a lot of excellent American shows, many of which I like.